Open Thread: Larry sleeping on the job?
April 25, 2009
by The New Agenda
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Here’s our old pal Larry Summers sleeping on the job. Maybe he was daydreaming about how to spend his $8 million in bonuses from last year?
Oh, no. He was sleeping because a woman was talking. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney who is championing credit card legislation. Certainly, if a woman is involved, must be nap time.
This is pretty funny. Ooooh… I wonder what Mr. Deleware Joe Biden is going to think about this credit card legislation?
I know none of us like Larry Summers, and with good reason, but this article is just petty.
Petty!? How so? A highly paid appointee sleeping when he’s being paid to work.
Imagine if the players were reversed, and she was seen lounging on her triple chins with her eyes closed during a WORKING meeting, while a man spoke. Think she’d be there for long? How about if it had been Palin? There’s be an outcry about working MOTHERS, and children going without MOTHERING, and where women belong, and people like Amanda Marcotte would make hay with it for a month or so, there’d be cartoons, petitions, praying for her children, talk of wondering if social services should be involved? And finally, blaming her daughter, who’s own relationship problems must be interferring with THE NATION’S WORK.
But what do I know. I’m not even American. So go ahead Karen. Show me petty. This clown has been phoning it in for the majority of his career, and making slurs against half the population when he did. So again, show me.
What is she doing in the Man’s Sphere?
Seriously, though. Is this picture for real? Why is he sleeping at an official board meeting? He should be fired, immediately.
How disrespectful.
Larry Summers should NOT be at the table. He has has demonstrated huge conflicts of interest, and questionable integrity.
1. Larry Summers, the guy who was outraged several weeks ago about AIG executives earning $1 million in bonuses, himself earned $8 million in bonuses from the same hedge funds and financial institutions that he was appointed to oversee and regulate. And during 2008, Larry earned $2.7 million from Wall Street banks that were recipients of government bailout money. Is there a conflict of interest here? You bet!
2. Conflict of interest: Summers was managing director of the hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co. Did he try to help his friends and himself by continuing to bail out businesses? You bet.
3. Andrei Shleifer, a close friend of Summers cost Harvard a $26 million settlement with the U.S. government. A federal court found Shleifer liable for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government, after Shleifer violated conflict-of-interest rules by making secret investments in Russia at the same time he was working for a Harvard group contracted by the U.S. Government to advise the Russian government. While Shleifer was being investigated, Summers pushed to have Shleifer promoted to a prominent chair at Harvard. http://www.opednews.com/articl.....6-709.html
4. While at the World Bank, Summers signed a memo that declared: “Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Least Developed Countries]?” The memo noted, “I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.” http://www.whirledbank.org/ourwords/summers.html
5. • Larry Summers, and others, were repeatedly warned by women of impending financial disaster because of financial management under his direction. Not only did he ignore these women, he berated them and fired them when he could. Examples:
6. Here are 3 additional pertinent articles:
a. ” The Enemy Within: President Obama Must Dump Summers?To Save His Presidency” by Debra Hanania-Freeman, ”http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2009/3613must_dump_summers.html
b. ”Eight reasons to dump Larry Summers”,
http://www.larouchepub.com/oth.....mmers.html
c. ”Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Wall Street’s ownership of government”http://www.salon.com/opinion/g.....4/summers/
Is this who should be advising Obama on financial issues and the economy?
It is not petty to keep an eye on Larry zzzzzzzzzz Summers. From his exploits at Harvard (girlies no good in math) to his deeds in finance, deliberate putting down of women who called out the growing crises, and his current position as “sage” to the administration, this man is pernicious to the country…and clearly to women. Might I also add that the guy has no class and manners zzzzzzzzzzing in a meeting with the president? Now, is that petty of me to point that out?
NMK, I agree. Larry is bad for the country, especially in his position as “sage” to the administration.
It’s also creepy that his position (in the picture) is at the ‘head of the table.’
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